I am seeing a lot – a *lot* – more e-mail spam than before.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

I am seeing a lot – a *lot* – more e-mail spam than before. I am not the only one. Seems like some larger phishing campaign got kicked off?

I wonder if this is related to the aggression on Iran.

#InfoSec

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@rysiek I concur. And the majority is coming via Google mail servers. It seems Google has a problem. Started around a month ago.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@jwildeboer yeah, that's also super confusing.

My best guess would be: this is coming from accounts that got phished a while ago and were just sitting dormant (as in, not used by the malicious actors) for when they were needed.

That time has apparently come now.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@rysiek I have sent around 150 reports to Google (for the mails) and Cloudflare (where the phishing sites that are linked in the mails point to) but I see no change for the better. Quite the opposite, actually. It is getting more.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@rysiek on the upside, would they bother with the Fediverse if it didn't actually have some traction?

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@oblomov sorry, I should have been clear it's about e-mail spam

[nihili@infosec.exchange]

@jwildeboer @rysiek I don't do email security stuff anymore but when I did a few years back Google was one of our top sources of spam. I think this may just be an ongoing trend.